3.5 rounded up. If I’m honest Evelyn was a bit annoying. I know this was a coming out story and was about field hockey but she was so quick to just fall for obvious manipulation by her friends and then to forgive them. I wasn’t a fan of Katie or the fact they maintained a friendship after how shitty she was. You should accept treatment like that from a friend. She was also too into field hockey. Which I know is part of the point but… there are other things to life and the fact her sport feeds into her aspirations for college with no explanation of what she would do with a gender studies degree focused on sports.

I liked the first half of this a lot, but I did get a bit frustrated by the sports aspect of it. It didn't seem realistic that she could be a goalie for one of the top high school teams in the country but not have any colleges other than Duke (a strong athletic schools) recruiting her, and it didn't seem realistic that a team would have only one goalie. I would give this author's next YA book a shot though!